Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-10-13
w. c. II U.EDEpARTMENr.
EDITED BY TIE woMAN's CHRIS.
TGAN TEMPERANCE UNION.
For God, and Home, and Native
Land"

| we've had enough of license laws
! Enough of liquor taxes;
! We've turned the grindstonc long enough:
Ills time to swing our axes.
| We've had enough of forging chains,
This demon drink To fetter;
Good bullets from the ballot box,
Well sped, will fix him better.
! We've had enough of shame and wrong.
OF cruel spoliation;
! Who fears to say II loud enough
To thrill the State and Nation?
The temperance women Of Rhode
Island are very practical. They
have been holding open air meetings
during the summer, getting the best
speakers in the various towns to talk
Temperance to the people. We
judge that their resolutions are
manifested in works. A friend sent
us copy Of the report of their State
convention in which we vainly look
ed for series of resolutions. We
have thought sometimes at our State
convention that the committee on
resolutions could be dispensed with
better than to have these ladies tax.
ed with the labor and obliged to be
absent from the meetings Of the
organization so much of the time.
Perhaps less formality and more
practice of good resolutions would
amount 10 more in the end.
/
A Chicago man has spent $Io,.
ooo in fitting up his sitting room;
and when his sons get old enough
it is probable that they will prefer
to spend half the night in the boys
club room containing a couple Of
seventy-five cent card tables, half
dozen brokenback chairs, and a
two dollarand alfstovc.-- Norris.
torn HeraLd
1t will be well for parents TO
ponder the above item and to ask
for the reason why boys prefer the
uncomfortable club rooms to the
elegant homes of their parents.
Parents do not begin in time to keep
their boys at home nights. We have
ceased to be surprised at seeing by
night on our Main street, as many
very little boys at a time, as can
hover about the snowy windows of
jewelry and other attractive stores.
These little boys are taking Their
first lessons in vice. There should
be an officer ofthe law to take them
home, and break up such groups
wherever found. They are the boys
who are to fill our jails and prisons
and how people can be so short
sighted as to allow it to go on is one
of the mysteries.
The State Journal says the toll
lowing:
The gamblers must 60. At least
an effort to make them go should
be vigorously made, and then
persisted in. The gambler is a pest
in any community The fruit of his
work is dishonored men, ruined
| business ana pauper homes. The
gambler strikes indirectly, but none
the less severely, at the wife and
children OF his victims. Gambling
is crime against manhood as well
as against the State. 1t is but one
step removed from highway rob.
berry, In neither case has the
average victim the slightest chance
OF retaining his property.
The church and the press should
unite in an effort to do away with
every species of gambling. Many
a young man has taken his first
lesson in gambling at a Christian
festival or fair. Selling by rattle,
voting or guessing should be frown-
ed down by all good people. No
worldly consideration should induce
man to advertise or favor in any
way lottery schemes or anything
looking in this direction. The time
has come when the people of God
will have to choose between the
service of Christ and Of Baal.
A friend Of ours back in old Ken